It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

A landmark in Greenwich Village ’ s cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

Herbert's mother, Edna Marguerite Merkel, was an accomplished pianist whose ancestors had come from Prague and Cologne.

Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth Samuel Allen, an associate director of the University of Washington libraries, and Edna Faye ( née Gardner ) Allen, on January 21, 1953.

The name " Rush " was originally chosen for his grandfather to honor the maiden name of family member Edna Rush.

Edna Ferber ( August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968 ) was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright.

Truman was married three times: to Helen Irene ( née Hughes ), Marjorie ( née Bennett ), and Edna O.

Ellington was joined in New York City by his wife, Edna Thompson, and son Mercer in the late twenties, but the couple soon permanently separated.

Ellington married his high school sweetheart, Edna Thompson, on July 2, 1918, when he was 19.

Anderson was born in Rockford, Illinois, where he grew up, the son of Mabel Edna ( née Ring ) and E. Albin Anderson, a Swedish immigrant.

Even the musical Show Boat, which is greatly different from the Edna Ferber novel from which it was adapted uses some of Ferber's original dialogue, notably during the miscegenation scene.

The play was written in collaboration with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman, who regularly wrote with others, notably Marc Connelly and Edna Ferber.

In 2000, Australian actor Barry Humphries won the Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Dame Edna being his " Melbourne Housewife " alter-ego who was recently on Broadway in the show All About Me.

In 1930, Stratemeyer died, and the Syndicate was inherited by his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer and Edna Stratemeyer Squier.

Edna Dean Proctor wrote an ode for the event and " There was also an oration suitable for declamation.

The film was adapted by Morrie Ryskind and Anthony Veiller from the play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman, but the play's storyline and the characters ' names were almost completely changed for the movie, so much so in fact that Kaufman joked the film should be called " Screen Door ".

A 1939 radio adaptation of the story, starring Laurence Olivier and Edna Best, was presented by Cecil B. DeMille on Lux Radio Theatre, Hollywood.

Stars featured in the film included Charlotte Henry as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle ( Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time ), Gary Cooper as the White Knight, Edward Everett Horton as The Hatter, Charles Ruggles as The March Hare, and Baby LeRoy as The Joker.

American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a book-length verse play on the massacre, The Murder of Lidice, which was printed in its entirety in the 19 October 1942, edition of Life magazine and published as a book that same year by Harper.

Gould married Edna Gauger in 1926, and their daughter, Jean, was born in 1927.

The screenplay was written by Peg Fenwick based upon a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee.

Loving County was the home of the first elected female sheriff in Texas, Edna Reed Clayton Dewees.

Abbott was married to Edna Lewis from 1914 to her death in 1930 ; they had one child.

The Ernst E. Lehmann farm, known as Lindenhurst, was acquired by developer Morton “ Mort ” Engle, who bought it from Lehmann family friend Edna Siebel.

Humphries has regularly updated Edna, originally a drab Melbourne housewife satirising Australian suburbia.

" When Dame Edna was questioned about the controversy on the eve of her 2003 Australian tour, she retorted that Hayek's denunciation was due to " professional jealousy ", and that Hayek was envious because the role of painter Frida Kahlo ( for which Hayek received an Oscar nomination ) had originally been offered to Edna:

It was originally designed by Edna Walling.

He was originally slated to wake up in bed with Edna Krabappel and miss the game, but Canseco's then-wife, Esther Haddad, objected.

Louise Closser Hale originally was scheduled to portray Aunt March, but after her death on July 26, 1933, Edna May Oliver assumed the role.

Orton chose the name as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's " Aunt Edna ", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer.

As well as the above, some interesting quirks of the character include rather unusual ingenuity in his job such as: using police hang gliders, riding an ostrich, speaking hippie tongue, and using loud music to flush Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel out of Springfield Elementary ( albeit with a poorly chosen song ) to which they locked down to name a few.

Other spellings and earlier forms include: Ethnea, Ethlend, Ethnen, Ethlenn, Ethnenn, Eithene, Ethne, Aithne, Enya, Áine ( sometimes a separate name ), Ena, Edna, Etney, Eithnenn, Eithlenn, Eithna, Ethni, Edlend, Edlenn.

Edna and Douglas moved at an early age to the UK and Harry later in life moved to Toronto, Canada and retained Constance's maiden name, Selby.

The last attempt to fix the damages involved with the events of Back to the Future: The Game ends with even a more radical change, with Edna Strickland traveling under an assumed name to 1876 to act as a moral guide of the newly founded Hill Valley: however, after a failed confrontation with Beauregard Tannen, a Confederate soldier who built and founded the Palace Saloon, she accidentally causes a conflagration that consumes Hill Valley, turning it into a ghost town with herself as the only resident.

** In Growing Pains, Barry Kent's mother's name is Ida, but in Cappuccino Years she is called Edna.

Although Edna may not be able to name the fear that has driven her out of her own house, she appears to be quite capable of naming the things that other people are doing wrong in their lives.

The King is utterly contemptuous of his son, frequently calling him by the wrong name ( usually Egbert, Edward, Edwin, Edgar, Edith, Edna or Osmond ) and, more frequently, forgetting he even exists at all, in contrast to the affection in which he holds his eldest son, Prince Harry ( Robert East ).

Mrs Divine's birth name is Edna Rose Ritchings and her Peace Mission name is Sweet Angel.

He put forth his own name, and was accepted, the result being The King's Henchman, with the libretto by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

On the few occasions he does recognise his son, he calls him by the wrong name, be it Edna, Edward, Edgar, Edwin, Egbert, Osmond, or simply ' The other one ' or ' the slimy one.

In 1879, she published her first novel, Won by Waiting, under the pen name of " Edna Lyall " ( apparently derived from transposing letters from Ada Ellen Bayly ).

Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary ( 1927 ), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit ( 1926 ), with Reginald Denny, the part-talkie The Love Trap ( 1929 ), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat ( 1929 ), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.

Surtain attended high school at Edna Karr High School, where he completed 44 of 97 passes for 753 yards with seven touchdowns and rushed 137 times for 784 yards with 12 touchdowns as a quarterback .< ref name = " kcprofile ">

When Van Aken went broke, the property was sold to a U. S. Senator, John R. McPherson, who changed the name from Vanaken to Belle Mead in honor of his daughter, Edna Belle Mead McPherson, according to one popular story.

* Edna ( given name ), a feminine given name

Saratoga Trunk is a 1945 film written by Edna Ferber and Casey Robinson, based on Ferber's best-selling novel of the same name.

Possibly the best known of this type of character is Dame Edna Everage whose name plays on two meanings of dame: this tradition and the title equivalent to Sir.

* Edna, His Wife ( 1937 ), play based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Margaret Ayer Barnes

* Manshū Ki-71 dive bomber prototype ( Allied reporting name " Edna ")